A quiet village in the Dominican Republic shows what happens when societies expect change instead of fearing it. By allowing language and systems to track material reality, Las Salinas...
Finding Safety: A Full Guide for Transitioned Women Affected by Sexual or Domestic Violence in the UK (2026)
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A practical, trauma-informed guide for transitioned women in the UK navigating sexual or domestic violence. This article explains where support exists, and how to protect your dignity and safety...
In 2025, UK systems that once offered protection increasingly became sources of harm for transitioned women. Without repealing rights, policy and practice shifted in ways that reduced safety, access,...
When restriction is framed as care, and control is dressed up as safeguarding, it becomes harder to see the harm being done. This essay traces the logic behind gender-critical...
Leslie Feinburg's original intention behind it was honourable: it was to unite all people oppressed by cis-heteronormative gender constructs, people who do not neatly fit into the social...
People really love holding schemas about themselves and others, of gender and of embodiment (and a lot more), and make constructs which may feel right, or justified, or protective,...
By: Liora Wren (Transiness Admin) transinessadmin@protonmail.com Date: 5/10/25 Foreword: If this Sussex Police policy were framed so that cis women could be stripped and searched by men, the outrage...
When we first wrote to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in February, we hoped for a response that would acknowledge the harm being done to trans patients and...
Recently, the UK Supreme Court delivered a decision that’s caused considerable anxiety among trans women across the country. Headlines shouted that we’ve been “banned” from women’s toilets, hospital wards,...
The Quiet Codification of Control: Trans People and the Infrastructure of Forced Visibility
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This week, the UK government confirmed what many of us feared: a centralised, non-consensual tracking system for transgender people is not only underway – it is being rationalised as...
